{"id":10812,"date":"2018-11-05T04:31:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T04:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/?p=10812"},"modified":"2026-03-30T07:34:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:34:30","slug":"the-chatterbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/the-chatterbox\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chatterbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/thumb-cb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><strong><span style=\"font-size: 200%; font-family: Arial; line-height: 32px; color: #3366ff;\">I have lots of fantastic parents who visit my website and social media platforms and use the resources I create to help their children. This helps their children to get ahead in literacy and to catch up at school as well.<\/span><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">It\u2019s so wonderful when they contact me to tell me how they are helping their children to improve their literacy skills.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">I especially like to hear from parents whose children are enjoying my online reading and spelling program, The Ten Minute Tutor.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">Recently I received a message on Facebook, from mum Lizzie, and her two gorgeous daughters; Jewel and Bella. Here are the photos she and the girls sent me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/collage-thumb-3-1017x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/collage-thumb-3-1017x1024.png 1017w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/collage-thumb-3-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/collage-thumb-3-298x300.png 298w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/collage-thumb-3-768x773.png 768w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/collage-thumb-3-80x80.png 80w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/collage-thumb-3.png 1210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1017px) 100vw, 1017px\" \/><\/center><center><\/center><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">This is what she wrote:<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 0px solid #666666; background: #d6edf3; width: 80%; margin: 20px auto; line-height: 1.3; text-align: none; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; \"><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial; \"><em>\u201cHi Liz my daughter wanted to send this to you specifically. I made this exciting chatterbox game to memorise the list of 152 words for my daughter and get them into her long-term memory. My daughter Jewel has dyslexia and has always struggled with memorising them. She loves doing your Ten Minute Tutor program and it has helped her a lot. She really enjoys playing the game and we wanted to share it with you. You can make different ones, with different words, when they have gone through them. You can also vary the activities at the end as well. We\u2019ve made a video to show you, we hope you like it.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">This amazing family has taken my list of 152 common words your children should know and created a Chatterbox game. It\u2019s one we\u2019ve all played at school and kids still love playing it today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">Take a look at the video that Lizzie and her daughters sent me demonstrating how the Chatterbox game works.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/298560804?title=0&#038;byline=0&#038;portrait=0\" width=\"340\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">You can see that they\u2019ve taken words from the chart of the 152 common words. I teach these in The Ten Minute Tutor program. They have done the consonants in one colour and the vowels in red, just like I do! They have also put some messages on the inside too with physical activities to cement the learning. Now that is a great idea!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">How gorgeous is this? I just love it. There\u2019s colour, movement, a chatterbox to make it tactile and it\u2019s kinaesthetic as well.  It ticks all of \u2018The Ten Minute Tutor\u2019 boxes.<\/span> <\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 0px solid #666666; background: #d6edf3; width: 80%; margin: 20px auto; line-height: 1.3; text-align: center; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; \"><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial; \"><em>\u201cWhen learning involves movement, colour, tactile cues and is kinaesthetic, it helps to cement the learning into a child\u2019s long-term memory.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">I love that Lizzie and her girls, Jewel and Bella came up with this fantastic game to help them to remember their sight words. They are so excited that they have made a video to show me. I\u2019m excited that Lizzie gave me her permission to share it with you, so you can do the same for your child or student.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thetenminutetutor.com\/free-teaching-and-learning-worksheets\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><font color=\"1d50ff\">Here\u2019s a link to the 152 common sight words<\/font><\/strong><\/a> your child should know. You can use these words to make your own chatterbox to help your child learn their sight words. If you would, do let me know. I would like to hear about it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have lots of fantastic parents who visit my website and social media platforms and use the resources I create to help their children. This helps their children to get ahead in literacy and to catch up at school as well. 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